Saturday, 24 October 2009

Pirate Hoards Autumn Gold

To start off, I just want to thank everyone who got involved in the debate on the previous post. There were some incredibly thoughtful and insightful comments. I'd love for people to carry on commenting on it. It's great reading your thoughts.

Now, on to today's post: another one in a very long line of charity/thrift shop finds.

This is a Jaeger dress that was found in Edinburgh over the summer when we were staying on Nicholson Street, which has the most charity shops possible in a single area... So as you can imagine, I couldn't wait to start combing through them. I actually noticed that in the latest Vogue, it also mentioned that specific street of charity shops, so it's obviously a popular destination.

This was from 'Shelter' I think, specialising in vintage. What I was drawn to first with this dress was the fabric (see the closeup.) I love the child-like effect of the crayoned flowers on bright yellow. The fact that it was vintage, Jaeger and only £6 settled it for me.

I customised it a little to suit me more. The hem was cut off to knee length, with the surplus fabric tied around the neck in a pussy bow to give it a seventies feel. I'd usually be thinking about what pair of heels to put with a dress as fabulous as this, but it was a proper welly-wearing walk, so that settled it, Then it was on with the Radley belt (charity shop) and up with the hair into a messy bun. It's the new tramping around the countryside look, Daaaarling!

The photos were taken on the welsh coast in front of a picture postcard estuary. (That's the best way I can be dragged out of the house to go on walks now, with there being a promise of a shoot for my blog at some point along the way. Though my younger brother is none too happy with the extra hanging around).

And lastly, a massive thank you to the bloggers who got back in touch with me about the designs I did for them. I enjoyed this project so much, and it was lovely to be acknowledged by some of the people I drew. I thought I'd just put a small quote from each one to tell you what they thought.

Jane from Sea of Shoes- "You’re a fantastic artist and I wish you all the best-hope someday your designs translate into real life and I can get my hands on those ruffly anklets."

Raez from Cheap Thrills- "Two runway-worthy outfits designed just for me, I love 'em:) Such creativity!"

Adela from Pink Champagne- "You are a wonderful artist, and should definitely consider a career in fashion photography/illustration. I LOVE the picture, and am already thinking of ways to interpret these looks."

Nicky from Lips Of London- "I feel so special having you a fabulous blogger take time to draw outfits influenced by my style!"

Karla from Karla's Closet- "THANKS SO MUCH! very sweeeeet of you, i love it!"

So thanks again to those bloggers, and also to everyone else who commented. It really made my day! I hope to show you some more of my designs sometime..

I'm on holiday now until thursday, but I'll look forward to catching up when I get back.

36 comments

That is so clever what you did to make it original (: I love the pictures too (:I also had another look at the pictures you drew they are eally really good hope my textiles drawing turn out as nice maybe you could give me some ideas?x

Yay Jaegar! Love it so much! Your customising really works I'd never have guessed if you hadn't said. The comments from all the bloggers are really sweet, and of course quite true, that really was such a creative post!x Pearl

the photos are great and I wanted to commend you on your fabulous comment on Tavi's blog :)I really get nothing out of a pickled horse or pig by Damien Hirst.. interestingly enough they have a few of them in the Tate Modern and I recently went to see an exhibition called Pop Life it was all about the commercialism of the 60's/70's and they (funnily enough) included a damien hirst pickled sheep... I'm not sure if Mr. Hirst was too pleased with this as I thought it was really rather mocking his work seeing as some of the other art were just movie posters from that commercial era etc. Well sorry about my rambling ;)Next time you visit London be sure to check it out and (if you haven't seen on the news already) the huge black box in the Tate Modern..anyway got to dash but it was a lovely post :)Nicky

This is such a beautiful photo shoot! Your outfit is beautiful and the scenery is beautiful. Did I say beautiful enough there? Anyway I love your style: it is vintageish but not so over the top, this is exactly the look I aspire for and thanks for your blog because it combines wonderful photography and fashion :) good Job :)

also just so you know, this is my favorite blog that I have seen so far! I just started blogging a few weeks ago and this is really just an amazing blog!

This is so Beautiful and inspirational! I love your style and these pictures are lovely!I am a new blogger so I have only seen a few sites but this is the best. That you are so young and already following your dreams is so cool:) keep up the great work! And thank you for the great blog :) I most definately think you will go places with your talent. -^..^-sofi

Just left you a lonnnnng comment on the Debate post. Hope you're having a great holiday. It's so strange, Roz: we were up in Herefordshire on Saturday - without laptop - & I told my husband about you, and wanting to do a shoot with you but I didn't know how to reach you. I love what you did with the Jaeger dress, and yes, wellies are the perfect unexpected footwear! ; )

Looking forward to some great posts when you're back - I'm sure you're shooting wherever you are. jCx

Hey from Canada! Woooow, definitely my new favorite blog! Absolutely everything about it is perfect, including the person wearing the clothes:) AND, I love that most of your clothes are recycled. It think your fellow bloggers (ahem, S of S) should follow your example. You symbolize everything that is RIGHT about fashion!

ahh, that's great!!! select is a wonderful agency! i, too, am signed (with ford) but have only done a few tests. (i'm 15) i went on my first casting the other day! they were looking for older, curvier girls so of course the job was not for me-haha. take care, and hopefully we will meet up backstage somewhere soon! ;D